Incentives to Learn

Worker Incentives to Learn in Gatekeeper Systems: Lessons for the Implementation of Knowledge Management Systems

Behind most KM initiatives is the desire to make knowledge possessed by some employees of a firm more widely available to other employees of the firm. Such a diffusion of knowledge can lead to the spread of useful skills and concepts for repeated application throughout the firm and can increases the likelihood of innovation. The assimilation of knowledge requires its application and if complex ...

Using Artefactual Field Experiments to Learn about the Incentives for Sustainable Forest Use in Developing Economies

One vexing problem facing mankind is how to promote sustainable use of common property resources. Within developed and developing countries alike, misuse of fresh water, pastures, and forests is commonplace. While developed countries have in many cases designed principles and laws to promote sustainable resource use, developing countries often lack the institutional know-how and means to enforc...

Mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn: what do we know about them?

This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youths both in the US and abroad. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain alternative theoretical points of view in favor (or against-when applicable) each o...

Field Experiments to Learn about the Incentives for Sustainable Forest Use in Developing Economies

How to Learn/What to Learn

Abst rac t : This paper discusses the kind of in fo rmat ion that must be present in a computer program that models the l i n g u i s t i c development of a c h i l d . A three stage model is presented that character izes the development of a na tu ra l l a n guage parser in a c h i l d of ages one, one and a h a l f , and two. Some data from ch i ld ren of these ages is presented. General prob...